Coffin lid

Description

Lid of the inner coffin, of white-painted wood, of Amenhotepyin, son of Khaamun and Bakri: Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Thebes, 3rd Intermediate Period, late 25th Dynasty, c.680-650 BC

Museum reference

A.1869.33 C

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Coffin lid

Production information

Unknown
Egypt, Northern Africa

Date

3rd Intermediate Period
25th Dynasty

Style / Culture

Ancient Egyptian

Physical description

Wood, white-painted

Collection place(s)

Thebes, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Northern Africa

Associations

Previous owner: Amenhotepiin

Exhibitions

• Ancient Egypt Rediscovered (08 Feb 2019)
  National Museum of Scotland

• Egyptian Gallery, 2003 - 2008 (2003 - 2008)
  Royal Scottish Museum

• Ancient Egypt (29 Jul 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland

References

LIEBLEIN, J 1871. Dictionnaire de noms hiéroglyphiques en ordre généalogique et alphabetique (Christiana: Brögger & Christie), p.432/1354

BIRCH, S 1874. “Account of Coffins and Mummies Discovered in Egypt on the Occasion of the Visit of H. R. H. the Prince of Wales in 1868-9”, Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature 2nd series/10: p. 189, 212 [4]

B Porter & R B Moss. Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings (Oxford: Clarendon Press/Griffith Institute), I/1, The Theban Necropolis2 Part 1 (1960), I/2, The Theban Necropolis2 Part 2 (1964) p 673, pl II

SEEBER, C 1976. Untersuchungen zur Darstellung des Totengerichts im alten Ägypten (Munich & Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag), p.217

ADAMS, C V A 1990. “An Investigation into the Mummies Presented to H. R. H. the Prince of Wales in 1869”, Discussions in Egyptology 18: pp. 5-19.

Howell G. M. Edwards, Susana E. Jorge Villar, Katherine A. Eremin, (2004) 'Raman spectroscopic analysis of pigments from dynastic Egyptian funerary artefacts', Journal of Raman Spectroscopy 35/8‐9 (Raman spectroscopy in Art and Archaeology, August ‐ September 2004), 786-795.

NAIL, N.H. 2000 'The Coffins and Mummies Presented to Edward Prince of Wales during his 1869 Egyptian Tour Revisited' Discussions in Egyptology, Oxford, 48, pp. 67-79

ASTON, D A 2009 'Burial assemblages of dynasty 21-25 : chronology-typology-developments' Vienna, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, pp. 252-53

Manley, B and Dodson, A., (2010) Life Everlasting. National Museums Scotland Collection of Ancient Egyptian Coffins (Edinburgh: NMS Enterprises Ltd.), Cat. 28, pp.85-87

On display

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